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- A scene from the Yule Log, filmed in 1970.
It wouldn't be a holiday in New York without the PIX11 Yule Log! The Yule Log, the famous film loop of a burning log in a hearth, has warmed the hearts of` viewers since it debuted on PIX in 1966. To celebrate the fabled fire stick's 46th anniversary, PIX11 will air The Yule Log (available in HD) from 9am-1pm on Christmas morning, December 25th.
Viewers can follow the Yule Log on twitter @PIXYULELOG and become a fan of the Official Yule Log on Facebook (PIXYuleLog)
Log merchandise (including "Nice Log!" and "That's HOT!" boxer shorts) can be found HERE
In recent years, The Yule Log has been digitally re-mastered and fully restored. In 2001 the original film was color corrected and cleaned. In 2003, the Log was up-converted to High Definition and PIX11 now airs The Yule Log in HD. In 2006, to celebrate the Log's 40th anniversary, Lawrence F. "Chip" Arcuri and Joe Malzone, the creators of theyulelog.com, restored the audio of The Yule Log and in 2009, with the assistance of "Chip" Arcuri, PIX11 added a new fourth hour to the program, including 23 classic holiday songs. The fourth hour leads off with Mantovani's interpretation of Adeste Fideles, a classic that aired on the Yule Log in the late 1960's; now restored back to the program. The new hour adds 9 artists including Bert Kaempfert, Mitch Miller, Bing Crosby, Vic Damone and Johnny Mathis.
In addition, the PIX11 Yule Log will be airing on the following Tribune Stations:
WPHL/Philadelphia 8a-12p
WDCW/DC 9a-11a
KCPQ/Seattle 4a-10a
KZJO/Seattle 9a-11a
WSFL/Miami 6a-10a
KTXL/Sacramento 4:30a-9a
KRCW/Portland 6a-10a
WXMI/Grand Rapids 5a-9a
WGNO/New Orleans 5a-9a
WXIN/Indianapolis 6a-10a
WGN/Chicago 1:30a-5:30a
Antenna TV Network 5-9a (ET)
(All broadcast times are for Tuesday, December 25th and are shown in that city's local time zone)
Wednesday, 11/21 8:00 – 10:00P PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES (1987) A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion. Starring Steve Martin and John Candy.
Thursday, 11/22 9:00-11:00A Movie: MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS (1934) Laurel and Hardy and classic
11:00A-5:00P HONEYMOONERS MARATHON (6 hours, 12 "lost" episodes)
Friday, 11/23 8:00-9:00P GRANDMA GOT RUN OVER BY A REINDEER (animated) (2000) Based on the hit song that became a worldwide holiday phenomenon, this goofy and heartwarming adventure features young Jake Spankenheimer on the quest of a lifetime to track his missing Grandma down on Christmas Eve and prove that Santa Claus is indeed real. Michele Lee ("Knots Landing") provides the voice of Jake's greedy Cousin Mel and recording artist Elmo Shropshire provides the narration.
9:00-10:00P THE HAPPY ELF (animated) (2005) Eubie the Elf's enthusiastic view of the holiday season is put to the test when he sets out to bring Christmas joy to a dreary town called Bluesville. An animated holiday delight featuring songs by Harry Connick, Jr.
Monday, 12/3 9:00-10:00P GOSSIP GIRL "It's Really Complicated" (Thanksgiving episode) Serena (Blake Lively) and Dan (Penn Badgley) decide to throw their first Thanksgiving together, inviting only their closest friends, but everyone seems to have their own agenda for attending. Feeling defeated by his father (guest star Robert John Burke), Chuck (Ed Westwick) begins a downward spiral, leaving Blair (Leighton Meester) to find a solution to his problems. Meanwhile, Dan has written his latest exposé, but he must make a tough decision whether to publish it, knowing it could destroy a close friendship. Chace Crawford, Kelly Rutherford and Matthew Settle also star. Barry Watson and Sofia Black-D'Elia guest star. John Stephens directed the episode written by Jake Coburn (#608). Monday, 12/10 8:00-9:00P 90210 "The Things We Do For Love" (Christmas episode) MUSICAL GUESTS TEGAN & SARA PERFORM — The friends prepare for a Christmas party at The Offshore. Matthew Diamond directed the episode written by Marjorie David (#609).
Tuesday, 12/11 8:00-9:00p HART OF DIXIE "Blue Christmas" (Christmas episode) Zoe (Rachel Bilson) finds herself anxious that her ever-critical mother will be visiting BlueBell soon for the holidays. In order to avoid spending quality time with her mother, she busies herself with a patient, but potentially ruins Christmas Eve for the whole town. Patrick Norris directed the episode written by Leila Gerstein (#210). 9:00-10:00P A MUPPETS CHRISTMAS: LETTERS TO SANTA (2008) When Gonzo accidentally diverts three letters to Santa, he talks Kermit and his friends into delivering them personally to the North Pole. Guest stars include Nathan Lane, Uma Thurman, Whoopi Goldberg and Jane Krakowski.
Wednesday, 12/12 8:00-9:00P ARROW "Year's End" (Christmas episode) Oliver (Stephen Amell) discovers that after he and his father went missing, Moira (Susanna Thompson) and Thea (Willa Holland) stopped celebrating Christmas. Determined to make up for lost time and restore a sense of normalcy to the Queen household, Oliver decides to throw the family a Christmas party. Meanwhile, Tommy (Colin Donnell) asks Laurel (Katie Cassidy) to spend Christmas with him but she points out that Christmas was also her sister's Sara's birthday and she needs to be with her father. Tommy suggests changing things up might be the best way for everyone to heal but Laurel isn't sure her father is ready for that. Thursday, 12/13 8:00-9:00P THE VAMPIRE DIARIES "O Come, All Ye Faithful" (Christmas episode) As a Winter Wonderland-themed party fills the streets of Mystic Falls, Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Caroline (Candice Accola) find themselves at odds with Tyler (Michael Trevino) over his plans for Klaus (Joseph Morgan) and his hybrids. When Caroline proposes a solution to their problem, Hayley (guest star Phoebe Tonkin) finds a dramatic way to make it clear that she is not on board. Later, Klaus makes a discovery that leads to chaos and violence. Meanwhile, Elena (Nina Dobrev) and Damon retreat to the Gilbert Lake House to help Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) conquer some dangerous inner demons with the help of Bonnie (Kat Graham) and Professor Shane (guest star David Alpay), who reveals a piece of ancient history that leaves them all speechless. Zach Roerig also stars. Pascal Verschooris directed the episode written by Michael J. Cinquemani & Julie Plec (#409). Friday, 12/14 8:00-10:00P Movie: PRANCER RETURNS (2001) Eight year-old Charlie Holton's Christmas journey begins when he finds a baby reindeer in the woods he immediately believes is Santa's Prancer. Determined to get Prancer back to the North Pole in time to help pull Santa's sleigh, Charlie momentarily charms his more cynical family with his tireless faith and creates a magical Christmas Eve that they will always treasure. Starring John Corbett and Jack Palance.
Saturday, 12/15 3:00-5:00P Movie: SANTA CLAUSE 2 (2002) Scott Calvin (Allen) has been Santa Claus for the past eight years, and his loyal elves consider him the best one ever. But Scott's got problems. His son Charlie has landed on this year's "naughty" list, and if Scott doesn't marry by Christmas Eve — one very, very short month away — he'll stop being Santa forever
Sunday, 12/16 1:00-3:00P Movie: TOGETHER AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME (2008) "Together Again for the First Time" tells the story of a blended family reuniting on Christmas Eve. It's the first time they've all been in the same house at the same time since the parent's marriage seven years before – which wouldn't be a problem if they all liked each other. But they don't. And matters only get worse with the unexpected arrival of an ex-boyfriend, an unannounced live television broadcast, and the outing of well-kept family secrets. This is a comic, touching movie about what it means to be family – even when you don't like each other very much.
3:00-5:00P Movie: SANTA CLAUSE 2 (repeat)
Tuesday, 12/18 8:00-10:00P Movie: IT'S A VERY MERRY MUPPET CHRISTMAS MOVIE KERMIT STARS ALONG WITH DAVID ARQUETTE, JOAN CUSACK, WILLIAM H. MACY AND WHOOPI GOLDBERG — On Christmas Eve, an angel petitions God to send help for Kermit the Frog who has lost all hope after losing the Muppet Theatre. Kirk R. Thatcher directed the film written by Tom Martin and Jim Lewis.
Wednesday, 12/19 9:00-11:00P Movie: NOEL (2004) Five New Yorkers come together on Christmas Eve, seeking a miracle. Starring Susan Sarandon and Penelope Cruz.
Friday, 12/21 8:00-9:00P THE HAPPY ELF (repeat) 9:00-10:00P GRANDMA GOT RUN OVER BY A REINDEER (repeat)
Saturday, 12/22 1:00-3:30P Movie: MEET JOHN DOE (1941) A newspaper reporter's made up story about a John Doe threatening to commit suicide on Christmas Eve as a protest to the state of world conditions takes on a life of its own.
3:30-5:30P Movie: CHRISTMAS AT MAXWELL'S This Christmas will change the Austin family forever. With a successful career in the wine business, two amazing children and having married his high school sweetheart, Andrew Austin has everything. Facing a hectic holiday season, Andrew and family retreat to their summer home on Lake Erie to celebrate their Christmas in peace. Away from the demands of the city, their world opens up to a moment in time they will never experience again as their small lakeside community quickly brings them its own wonderments.
Sunday, 12/23 1:00-3:00P Movie: THE DOG WHO SAVED THE HOLIDAYS (2012) It's a sun-soaked holiday season for the Bannister family as they travel to Southern California to stay with Aunt Barbara (Shelley Long), who surprises them with a new puppy named Eve (voiced by Peyton List.) Everyone is smitten with Eve – except for the Bannister's dog, Zeus (voiced by Joey Lawrence), who sees what a mischievous animal she is when no one else is around. After deciding to run away, Zeus sees Ted and Stewey, two thrifty thieves, trying to break into the family home while the Bannisters are at church. It's up to Zeus and his newest sister Eve to join together to save the holidays for their family.
3:00-5:00P Movie: MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS (1934) Laurel and Hardy and classic
Monday, 12/24 8:00-9:30P CHRISTMAS IS HERE AGAIN (animated) (2007) Christmas Is Here Again is a musical animated tale that follows the exciting journey of a young orphan girl. Voice of Jay Leno.
9:30-10:00P SECOND STAR TO THE LEFT – A CHRISTMAS TALE (animated) (2001) Seasonal animation in which a hamster, a rabbit and a guinea pig embark on a journey to deliver a Christmas present lost by Santa Claus. Voice of Hugh Laurie.
Catholic Christmas Mass from Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York.
Tuesday, 12/25 9am-1pm PIX11 Special: THE YULE LOG The Yule Log, a WPIX Christmas tradition, is a holiday card to our viewers of a log blazing in a fireplace accompanied by classic Christmas music.
1pm-3pm Movie: MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS (1934)
Monday 12/31 11pm PIX11 ANNUAL HONEYMOONERS MARATHON (13 hours, 26 episodes…more details to come!)


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tree mylist = NULL; apend_to_statement_list(stmt1, & mylist); apend_to_statement_list(stmt2, & mylist);A: This is interesting. I would think the result might be a bit strange since it may contain three statements, the first being the NULL. Another way is to append stmt2 to stmt1 to create the list, as below
mylist = stmt1 append_to_statement_list(stmt2, & mylist)I am not familiar with NEXT CHAIN (the name seems a macro) but I wonder whether its problem has something to do with the NULL stmt. In addition, if you can print mylist through some function, then I would check how that function iterates through the list in spite of the problem with NEXT CHAIN. Please post what you find. (ChenDing) A NEXT CHAIN is a very useful macro which is used to build an easy to handle list from any tree. However, I have not been able to build such a list of my own, rather I did manage to manipulate, for example, the number of arguments of a var-arg function like printf with its iternal wacky representation. This is what Xiaoming suggests, I hadn't noticed and I found it on my own. I guess your suggestion about the problem explains what I experienced, but I cannot remember. The statement list carries some more information used in some certain occasions (I remember so), but at least I did manage to use it to build a list:
tree lemon_tree = alloc_stmt_list(); tree_stmt_iterator lemon_counter; tree fools, garden; /* quiz */ append_to_statement_list(fools, &lemon_tree); append_to_statement_list(garden, &lemon_tree); for (lemon_counter = tsi_last(lemon_tree); !tsi_end_p (lemon_counter); tsi_prev(&lemon_counter)) { tree lemon= tsi_stmt (lemon_counter); squeeze(lemon); /* this function just says make use of it */ }At c-semantics they have some push/pop functions, I didn't use it though. In all, I highly doubt it might be of any use to me again, NEXT CHAIN is important, if somebody can make a concrete build/use-list example with it please post it.
if (TREE_CODE (stmt) == CALL_EXPR) { tree callee_decl = get_callee_fndecl (stmt); const char *callee_name = get_name (callee_decl); //printf ("Callee: %s\n", callee_name); if(!strcmp (callee_name, "exit"))// the called function is exit() {
#include <stdio.h> int main() { int i=1, j=2; printf("i is %d, j is %d\n", i++, j); printf("i is %d, j is %d\n", i, j); }This is the gimple tree for the only BB.
i = 1; j = 2; i.11 = i; i = i + 1; printf (&"i is %d, j is %d\n"[0], i.11, j); printf (&"i is %d, j is %d\n"[0], i, j); return;Since the two printf share one copy stmt of j, how should we move it? I think this is not quite clearly defined in the project description. A: This is a good example, which exposes several finer points of the requirement. First is what we consider as copies to temporaries. In this example, "i.11=i" is a copy but "j=2" is not because the latter copies from a constant, not a variable. Needless to say that "i=i+1" is not a copy either. The reordering would yield
i = 1; j = 2; i = i + 1; printf (&"i is %d, j is %d\n"[0], i, j); i.11 = i; printf (&"i is %d, j is %d\n"[0], i.11, j); return;It is fine if you consider constant assignments such as "j=2" a copy. The requirement does not say what to do if two scanf/printf statements have or copy from the same variable as in the following example (slightly changed from the original one)
j = i; printf("%d", j); printf("%d", j);Since the requirement did not address this conflict, you can in principle do whatever you want to without losing any points. I would recommend replicating the copy, "j=i" in this example, for each related statement. The solution is equivalent of keeping the copy with the earliest statement if there are no intervening changes to the right-hand operand of the copy statement. Another problem that the original example shows is what to do when we use complex expressions as arguments to scanf/printf. We can certainly do something more elaborate to make the compiler not only weird but also insistently weird but we don't have to. You don't need to go beyond the requirement. When demonstrating your compiler, do not use complex expressions and instead perhaps explain that yours is a weird compiler, not a weird and wicked compiler. (ChenDing)
node is the node, use
debug_tree(node); to do the dump.
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dump_node(node, TDF_SLIM, stderr), which prints detailed information about a node.
stmt is the function call, then do the following and
num_parms is the number .
tree parms = TREE_OPERAND (stmt, 1); int num_parms; tree p; for (p = parms, num_parms = 0; p; p = TREE_CHAIN (p)) num_parms++;
#include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int A, B, C, D, E, F; //A: printf - scanf; A = 0; printf("Type 0 for false, 1 for true\n"); scanf("%d",&B); //B : if(B) { CLABEL: goto DLABEL; } else { DLABEL: goto CLABEL; } E = 0; F = 0; }If you run GCC on it, you get a normal binary - no error, everything looks fine. The expected effect is that of while(1); Indeed, that is the case : the paths from B and C to E are actually never taken. If you try -fdump-tree-gimple though, the gimplified code has some unexpected annotations :
;; Function main (main) main (argc, argv) { int B.0; int A; int B; int C; int D; int E; int F; void CLABEL = <<< error >>>; void DLABEL = <<< error >>>; A = 0; printf (&"Type 0 for false, 1 for true\n"[0]); scanf (&"%d"[0], &B); B.0 = B; if (B.0 != 0) { CLABEL:; goto DLABEL; } else { DLABEL:; goto CLABEL; } E = 0; F = 0; }What happens is that we have a correct program, but there is this weird behavior : though there is a path from C to E and from D to E, the compiler can't take this path, because it sticks to jumping around between C and D. The compiler annotates this as an error during some part of its dominator graph analysis (or possibly later - you can find out yourself ; the labeled tree node has been marked with ERROR_MARK and there are quite some cases you can get this behavior from the compiler, just grep the source). As the Cooper-Torzcon book mentions in p. 480, "Structural Data-Flow Algorithms and Reducibility", there are a bunch of issues with allowing this code in the tree graph and that is why GCC marks it as an error. Use the index of the book and you might find more interesting things about the control flow graph. The problem arises from languages like C allowing jumps to basic blocks the way we did. Maybe one can do something like that with exceptions too. The problem is very interesting, because the classic data flow assumes that all branch directions are possible. If there are special relations between branch tests, for example, if test a is true than test b must be true, then the meet-over-all-path problem requires more precise analysis---type state for example. As to oppose to the fact that this is indeed an error, versus a similar case with analogous effect but different behavior, we can see what GCC has to say when we try to compile while(1):
#include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { while(1) ; return; }The gimplified code is :
;; Function main (main) main (argc, argv) { <D1865>:; goto <D1865>; return; }You can see that the compiler does not object to your intention to create an infinite loop. The reason it did object in the previous example, was an analysis issue. Last remarks: Trying a top down approach to the proof (showing that one node will dominate the other) is kind of harder, because, like Tivadar did in class, you can see that you end up with two nodes, one dominating the other but don't grasp why this might be wrong. Graph drawing does help, but probably sticking strictly to the definitions is an ok proof also. Previous attempts, false-alarms and in all the discussion about this subject before being rewritten for the n-th time can be seen through history. This answer to the question has been rewritten by merging Q+A concerning this subject, including a talk with Dr. Ding and Satyaki. I hope the examples make an otherwise nice short and correct proof nicer and more intriguing.


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Just in time for Mother's Day (May 10): Stories of madness, control, and thwarted ambition. She'll love it!
It was a strange coincidence that the much-anticipated TV movie of Grey Gardens and former Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl's fourth memoir, Not Becoming My Mother, should come out in the same week. While the differences are obvious - one's the story of fallen aristocracy, the other of mid-century malaise - both deal with thwarted female ambition, make one wonder whether fragile psyches can ever triumph over adversity, and, most of all, explore how these questions impact on mother-daughter relationships.
Most everyone - at least, readers of this site - knows the Beales' story: the New York socialites, mother and daughter, whose grandiose showbiz ambitions gave way to a life of delusion and squalor, made all the more dramatic by their family connection to Jackie O. The HBO film, while it broadens the focus, doesn't tell us much we didn't already know about their decline. To anyone who's read one of food writer and editor Reichl's memoirs, this one will not contain shocks, either: her neurotic, frustrated mother is a constant, infuriating presence in her books, her mental instability and scorn for her daughter's career a constant cross for Reichl to bear.
This memoir, title aside, is more sympathetic; Reichl explores the broken dreams that made Miriam Reichl the woman and the mother she was: her wasted education, her thwarted desire to become a doctor, her suffering through what Reichl terms "the worst possible time to have been a middle-class American woman." Reichl's writing is always curiously indifferent to whether the reader likes her, and this is no exception; despite her newfound understanding of her mother's struggles, the ambivalence is the memoir's third character. Miriam's disdain for Ruth's career choice may come from a desire to see Reichl do something more - and from a wish to protect her from crushing disappointment - but it's still cruel, and there were many mothers of the same generation who were able to muster far more support.
Then too, the main question we're left with at the end of the book is, how much was her? It's the same question that dogs Grey Gardens. Could Edith Beale have sung professionally, if not mired in the world of upper-class marriage? Or was it this very life which allowed her to cherish her illusions? Could her daughter have become a musical star without her mother holding her back, or were these women too damaged from the outset? Of Miriam, Reichl writes, "Was she crazy, or was she crazy because she had nothing to do?" As one reviewer puts it, "At times, Mim's mental health seems so fragile that the focus on her thwarted career seems misplaced: You wonder if she could have found satisfaction in any field or had condition, perhaps biological in origin, that would have caught up with her in any job."
Whatever the truth, the one certainty is that the daughters get sucked into the mythology; a daughter has to live her mother's reality, however damaged or damaging that may be. Reichl breaks free, Little Edie (of Miriam's generation) doesn't - but their mothers continue to haunt them, both with the realities and the realities they made. So, how do you break away? If you believe Reichl, the only way is to physically separate yourself from a personality that can dominate you; certainly the Beales show the danger of the alternative. Distance - not just physical, but emotional - is critical. You need to see a parent objectively. In Reichl's case, this meant a lot of anger, a lot of distancing, reducing her mother to a caricature. And then, ultimately, having the maturity to see her as more. In a sense, breaking this hold, as she tells it, is almost like the stages of grieving. And when one considers how domineering these personalities are, that makes a kind of sense. Together, this is an odd Mother's Day roundup, for sure - but certainly a potent one.
Ruth Reichl's Memoir 'Not Becoming My Mother' – An Apple Falls Far From the Tree [One Minute Book Reviews]
"Not Becoming My Mother [New York Post]
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Is oil like red meat or is it like tobacco? Your answer to that question determines how you feel about the North American boom in unconventional sources of fossil fuel, particularly the Canadian oilsands.
If you think oil is like tobacco, it is a strictly noxious commodity, which seriously harms its users and those around them. We should stop consuming it at once and at all costs.
But if you think oil is like red meat, you take a more nuanced view. For the health of the planet, we should find greener alternatives to it whenever we can, but used wisely and in moderation it has an honorable role in the 21st-century economy.
This morality play is being acted out with the greatest intensity in the fight over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would stretch from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast.
"Keystone is really a symbol of oil, it is very emotive," Daniel Yergin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning energy expert and chairperson of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates, told me. "It is probably the most famous pipeline in the history of the world, and it hasn't even been built yet. It is a symbol around which the opponents of hydrocarbon have rallied."
Last autumn, the consensus view was that the pipeline would be approved after the U.S. presidential election, no matter who won. In recent weeks, those odds have shifted.
"If you had asked me prior to the U.S. election, I would've said, 'Of course it's going to be built after the election, regardless of who wins,' " said Naheed Nenshi, the mayor of Calgary, where many of the oil companies that are counting on Keystone have their headquarters.
"If you had asked me immediately after the U.S. election, I would've said, 'Of course it's going to be built, now that the immediate political pressure is off,'" he said.
But today, Nenshi is less certain: "The feeling in Canada over the past four or five weeks has become less optimistic about this thing being built."
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty took the same view. "I actually don't know," he replied, when I asked him if the Keystone pipeline would be built. "I had reason for optimism before the election that the president would approve it, were he re-elected."
But, Flaherty said, President Barack Obama's inaugural address "was not encouraging."
Many politicians and business leaders in Canada, whose economy relies heavily on fossil fuels, have been caught by surprise by the intense opposition to the Keystone pipeline and to the oilsands crude it would carry south. The paperback edition of Yergin's latest book, The Quest, provides a powerful explanation of that mystery.
"We have to start somewhere to end the addiction to oil," is the way one environmentalist explained the broader strategy to Yergin. "The pipeline is a convenient device for fighting a larger battle," Yergin said.
Canadians, who are accustomed to being thought of as the world's official nice guys — think of all those students globe-trotting with maple leaves on their backpacks — are uncomfortable with this new role as climate change villains. (Disclosure: I am a proud Canadian myself.)
"I think it's a shame that a one-meter-in-diameter pipe is suddenly having to wear all of the sins of the carbon economy," Calgary's Nenshi said. "You know, it's not clubbing seals with child labour."
Yergin agrees. "The one thing that doesn't get much talked about is that this oilsands technology continues to advance; it is not static," he said.
"We reached peak oil demand in the U.S. more than half a decade ago. Our oil demand is going down. Our cars are getting more efficient," he said. "Meanwhile, there is a supply of energy we do need now. The real trade-off is, is it going to be Canadian oil or is it going to be Venezuelan oil?"
That trade-off used to be viewed in primarily strategic terms: Were our oil suppliers political friends or foes? By that measure, the Canadians score high. But the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, of all places, underscored another consequence of the North American boom in unconventional sources of oil: its impact on jobs.
Participants from slow-growth Europe and more vigorous Asia alike were dazzled by the job-creating potential of North America's renaissance as a fossil fuel producer. Moreover, these jobs happen to be the very sort that are being hollowed out by globalization and the technology revolution: high-paying, skilled, blue-collar work that cannot be outsourced or done by robots.
Which may be why the Canadians are picking up such mixed messages from the White House on the Keystone pipeline. For the Al Gore wing of the Democratic Party, it has become a symbolic battle in the fight to save the planet; for the Joe Biden wing, Keystone and the unconventional oil revolution are a source of the middle-class jobs many feared modern economies could no longer provide.
The pipeline is also a litmus test for what you think is the most important problem in the early 21st century.
Chrystia Freeland is managing director and editor of consumer news for Thomson Reuters.
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The 30th annual Hope College Run-Walk will be held on Saturday, Oct. 6, in conjunction with the college's Homecoming Weekend.
The 30th annual Hope College Run-Walk will be held on Saturday, Oct. 6, in conjunction with the college's Homecoming Weekend.
The event is co-sponsored by Shoreline Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Clinic, and Macatawa Family Medicine in cooperation with the college's department of kinesiology.
In addition to the running and walking activites, there will be a health fair open to both participants and spectators.
The 3,200-meter (two-mile) prediction walk will begin at 10 a.m. at the DeVos Fieldhouse and travel through the nearby Buys Athletic Complex. The 10 best predictions, estimating the amount of time the competitor will require to complete the walk, will win medals.
Competitive runners will compete in a 5,000-meter (3.1-mile) run beginning at 10 a.m.
The health fair will be held in the DeVos Fieldhouse from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Information will be provided on diet and nutrition, exercise and stress management techniques. Calculations will be available on a person's body fat, blood pressure, flexibility and muscle strength.
A T-shirt will be provided for participants who register by Friday, Oct. 1, but entries will be accepted on Saturday, Oct. 6 at 8 a.m. Competitors may dress and shower at the DeVos Fieldhouse.
The registration fee is $8 for each competitive event. Registration forms are available at the main office in the DeVos Fieldhouse, located at 11th Street and Lincoln Avenue on the Hope campus, or by calling (616) 395-7070.


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What time will Chelsea vs West Ham United kickoff?
Chelsea vs West Ham United will kick-off at 3PM.
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Blood, Sweat and Rails - RailsConf
Take a break from the technical mumbo-jumbo and listen to Obie leverage his wit and real-life experience in what promises to be an entertaining and insightful session geared towards current and aspiring Rails entrepreneurs.
In early 2007, Obie took a leap from being a full-time coder into the treacherous world of business. Growing Hashrocket from a little 4-person boutique to 20+ people in less than a year without going broke and keeping clients happy has been a huge challenge.
The session will cover the following topics:
- Sales and marketing: What works and what doesn't
- Contracts and legal matters: How to cover your bases and try not to get screwed if things go wrong
- Recruiting, hiring and retaining talent: How generous do you want to be?
- Finances: How much do you charge? Time and materials or fixed bids? Cash versus accrual accounting. Keeping investors from freaking out. Collections.
- Ethics: Being a vendor versus being a partner to your clients, where do you draw the line? What do you do when things go wrong?
- Consulting skills: Execution only gets you so far.
- Operations: Fighting entropy and human error every step of the way.
- Transparency: How much do you reveal? To employees? To clients?
- Relationships (dealing with clients): They are hard to keep happy.
- Front-line management (dealing with talent): Kind of like herding cats, and the higher the talent-level, the more difficult the task.
- Dreams of product development: Escaping a cash-flow business.
- Agile practices: Work smart or don't bother.
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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
James McClellan in Liberty, Order, and Justice (2000) comments on each of the Amendments to the U.S. Constitution which make up what is known as the Bill of Rights. Here is the IVth:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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The constitutional expert, James McClellan, provides a very useful commentary on the American Bill of Rights. He notes both the original intent of the authors as well as how courts in the modern era have interpreted and extended the laws to take into account technological and other changes. A nice connection here is that one of his academic positions in 1999 was as "James Bryce Visiting Fellow in American Studies" at the Institute of United States Studies of the University of London. James Bryce's work on The American Commonwealth (1995) has been published by Liberty Fund and we have other works by him in the OLL collection.


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No. 17 Wisconsin beats Nebraska 77-46
Dekker ties career high with 19 points
Reserve Sam Dekker matched his career high with 19 points to lead No. 17 Wisconsin to a 77-46 victory over Nebraska on Tuesday night.
Ryan Evans added 14 points and Ben Brust had 13 for the Badgers (20-8, 11-4 Big Ten).
Wisconsin's win, coupled with No. 1 Indiana's loss to Minnesota, put the Badgers one game back in the Big Ten race with three games to play for both teams.
Dylan Talley had 21 points and eight rebounds for the Cornhuskers (13-15, 4-11), while Brandon Ubel added 10 points.
Wisconsin took control of the game early with a barrage of 3-pointers and then cruised to the blowout as Nebraska's offense disappeared.
The Badgers opened the game 8 for 11 from behind the arc, and five came in a spurt that turned a 10-8 deficit into a 35-14 lead. Dekker accounted for 11 points in the 27-4 run, including three 3s.
Nebraska cut the lead to 14 on a quick 7-0 run, but the Badgers finished the half on a 9-2 spurt to lead 44-23 at halftime.
The Badgers were a model of efficiency in the first half with 13 assists on 16 field goals as they shot better than 59 percent from the field, tied for their best opening half in conference play
Nebraska, meanwhile, made just one of its first 18 shots from the field to open the second half, scoring just three points over a more than 11-minute stretch. That allowed the Badgers to push their lead to 64-26 with just over 8 minutes to go.
The Cornhuskers shot 33 percent for the game and had just six assists to 10 turnovers.
Things went so well for Wisconsin offensively that even Evans had a good game from the free throw line. Coming in shooting less than 41 percent from the stripe, Evans unveiled a new approach, taking one step back from the line and taking a jump shot. While unusual, it worked as Evans hit both free throws.
Jared Berggren finished with four blocks to make him Wisconsin's all-time leader at 126. He came into the game trailing Rashard Griffith (124) by two.


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From time to time I have encounters with fellow American citizens who faithfully display their Fourth of July & Memorial Day flags. It is ostensibly a show of patriotism but I wonder. As I have grown older and wiser, in my mind anyway, I believe the attitude of "America- Love It or Leave It" is a slogan that no longer applies or, perhaps, should never been used in the first place. What does a citizen mean when they say we are obligated to love one's country else hit the border and not return? The United States of America has many reasons for it's citizens to feel patriotic. But it also has many reasons for it's citizens to rightly drop their collective heads in shame. Our treatment of the American Indians, American Japanese, African Americans, members of the LGBT community, non-Abrahamic faith groups, atheists, etc has left a lingering question mark on the societal engine that drives this country. Would many of the disservices to entire classes of people not been eradicated sooner without this "love it or leave it" attitude? Do we not have a responsibility to seek change and never become jaded with the status quo? Living in the deep south of America gives me opportunity to see firsthand the ongoing mindset of many locals, still flying their Rebel flags in the front yard, that "the South will rise again." What the hell does that mean? If given the opportunity would we revert back to the days of slavery and white bigotry?
I feel compelled to challenge these "Love It or Leave It" citizens to define and justify their position or stance. Our country's citizens should not be pigeonholed into accepting things as they are and damned be those who dare speak up. Thankfully our culture is changing, albeit too slowly, and hopefully we can cast off these attitudes that seem to have their foundations in illogical religious dogma.
Should not the new slogan of our country rather be "America - Love It Through Change"?
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It seems like the average person, and not only American, can only consider 2 options in most cases...
As it was mentioned in this thread "Better dead than Red", "Love it or leave it", "Us or them", "My god or hell", etc... It seems like people are happy to live in this world with no middle ground.
kOrsan and Milos
A black-and-white, all-or-nothing view of everything is evidence of a limited and retarded mind.
Limited. yes. Retarded, Maybe. And so right wing American.
According to a 1970s-era university text on semantics, it's evidence of conflict that is not being resolved. I was researching the issue during the 1980s while learning about the minds of authoritarians. More recent findings by neuroscientists using brain scans might be shedding more light on the issue.
Search the Internet on "authoritarianism" and you will find a free download by Robert Altemeyer, a Canadian university professor who has studied right wing authoritarianism.
For more, and info on left wing thinking which is more nuanced, look at Chris Mooney's The Republican Brain: the Science of Why They Deny Science -- and Reality.
This appears to be in response to someone. Whom?
@ Mike
Your question about a citizen's patriotism is a good one.
[Wiki- Patriotism is a cultural attachment to one's homeland, excluding differences caused by the dependencies of the term's meaning upon context, geography, and philosophy.]
In America I believe the vast majority of it's citizens, especially the middle class, have a love of country that is a result of indoctrination to a large extent. I remember in school reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to that red and white striped rectangle. At the time I had no idea why I was saying those words but it was expected. I am thankful that the level of patriotism expected was nothing in comparison to the requirements of the North Korean's present regime. Their force feeding nationalism down their people's throats only serves to create a nation of robots. As for Americans who freely display their patriotism I believe it stems largely from their sense of their country representing to the rest of the world the principles and ideals of democracy and individual freedom. They also believe that the USA is the country that everyone else turns to when a region or foreign country engages in acts of aggression or turns on it's own people. The world's policeman or cop, if you will. Whether or not these sentiments are valid is open to debate. For some reason it is important to many Americans to feel that their country is the best place in the world to live, even with it's sores and callouses. I personally do not feel this obligation but will not fault those that feel this compulsion. Patriotism to me has nothing to do with great scenic beauty, plenty of food, for most anyway, or winning the most medals at the Olympic Games. It is more about being comfortable with the way your country treats it citizens fairly and without bias. There is certainly room for improvement and hopefully as a country we continue to evolve and improve socially.
I have a flag that hangs overhead in my workshop and is covered in wood dust. That piece of cloth still imparts a sense of pride but it also has lost a little luster over the years. I have come to realize that America is far from perfect in it's treatment of it's citizens and it's heavy handed dealings with other countries. Hopefully the younger generations of Americans can continue to make the changes that will allow us to be that great nation our founding fathers envisioned.
"If given the opportunity would we revert back to the days of slavery and white bigotry?"
In a word, yes!
I didn't know "America - love it or leave it." was ever a slogan for our country. To me it's always been just a bullshit meme held mainly by Angry Old White Men, who, as a group, can't achieve minority status soon enough!
Which demographic includes me, except I'm angry about different shit, like the sentiment this bullshit meme represents!
I would say to those that would try to impose religious limits on others that this is a secular country and if they don't like it and want to impose their standards and "beliefs" on others, perhaps they should be the ones to either love it the way it was meant to be or leave it. At the very least, keep it to themselves. Even so called modesty is primarily a religious concept thrust upon the general population.
Let's hear it for America --!
Immigration: Atheists Need Not Apply? Margaret Doughty, an atheist and permanent U.S. resident for more than 30 years, was told by immigration authorities this month that she has until Friday to officially join a church that forbids violence or her application for naturalized citizenship will be rejected. Doughty received the ultimatum after stating on her application that she objected to the pledge to bear arms in defense of the nation due to her moral opposition to war. According to a letter to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services by the American Humanist Association on Doughty's behalf, officials responded by telling her that she needed to prove that her status as a conscientious objector was due to religious beliefs. They reportedly told her she'd need to document that she was "a member in good standing" of a nonviolent religious organization or be denied citizenship at her June 21 hearing. A note "on official church stationary [sic]" would suffice, they said.
I wonder how many other brain dead bureaucrats are out there
Oh God, please tell me the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has "official church stationary!"
So only religions can offer a 'non-violent' position? All other 'non-religions' positions are by definition violent or pro-war/facist?
== despite much xian resistance at the time, the Constitution (1787) denies that there is a God of the State -- political ideology becomes free for the first time from religious institutionalized ideology. Dissent is not a form of heresy. You can not be exiled from the body politic for lack of orthodoxy (= ideological purity).
** The Constitution was not heaven-sent to a "xian nation" **
• The Constitution is the foundation document for the US
There's no natural law. Neither God nor religion plays any role. There are no "law givers." Laws do not get delivered on Sinai. They do not get "handed down."
God-talk disappears from justificatory language of 1776 (in the Declaration of Independence) and gives way to a view of 1786 (in the Constitution) that the people give themselves their own dignity and rights as citizens.
The Constitution contains no reference to any god. The word 'God' does not appear. ('Jesus', 'Christ', 'Christianity' don't appear either.) The word 'religion' appears only once, in Amendment One.
The first amendment protects "freedom of conscience." Initially the rights of a well-to-do white man (not slave, not female, not propertyless) to freely choose how to conduct his life as a legal person.
One Civil War (1865), the vote for women (1920), the Civil Rights Movement (1965) -- that's a turbulent blood-soaked price paid so far for extending equality (reciprocity) of rights.
• Amendment One also establishes freedom *from* religion.
The US is a secular state from its inception. It is not one nation under any god, power, force or immaterial being.
God (she or he or some committee) doesn't rule here. The people do. No god-proxies rule by divine right. Not child molesting priests, not fanatical tax-dodging televangelists, nor cabals of delusional fundies in the House seeking to overthrow the Republic.
The people enjoy or abuse their 'freedom of conscience' in matters of religion, speech, publications, public assembly, petitions to their elected representatives, civil disobedience, and even armed revolution. Is this order on the edge of chaos? Yes, and designedly so.
Some conjectured divinity (or divinized leader) can no longer claim as a "holy lie" the right to frighten people into acting in consonance with a god-given social order. The people are sovereign; we abide by the laws which we create for ourselves.
• Let's be clear here: The people are sovereign.
Christ is not sovereign . . . God is not sovereign . . . they do not exist. They are fictions no more real than Zeus, Sherlock Holmes, or Batman. And, theology is fifth rate fan fiction. As one wag puts it, "Theology is a subject without an object."
There are many who pretend to speak for metaphysical nonentities, demanding social control and political domination. They should be seen for the lying frauds that they are. They are christo-fascists (dominionists), threats to our secular Republic greater than all islamic "terrorists" combined.
Margaret Doughty, an atheist and permanent resident of the U.S. for over 30 years, was told by immigration authorities earlier this month that she had until today, Friday June 21, to officially join a church, because her conscientious objections to war were only valid if those beliefs came from religion. On Thursday, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services retracted their demand that Doughty show proof of religious affiliation and informed her that her application for naturalization had been approved.The Freedom from Religion Foundation and the Appignani Humanist Legal Center, sent letters on behalf of Doughty.


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Oracle has announced availability of NetBeans IDE 6.9. NetBeans IDE 6.9 introduces JavaFX Composer, a visual editor and layout tool for building JavaFX applications.
With JavaFX Composer, organizations can quickly build, visually edit, and debug Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and bind components to various data sources, including databases and Web services. For more on JavaFX, see JavaFX Database Programming with Java DB and The JavaFX JDBC Data Source. NetBeans IDE 6.9 also offers OSGi interoperability, letting developers easily create OSGi bundles for applications based on the NetBeans Platform.
NetBeans IDE 6.9 is available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Oracle Solaris, and, according to Oracle, provides improved editing and development capabilities, including:
- Improved Java language editing with more than 80 new "hints", to enhance developer productivity.
- Additional support for Java Enterprise Edition 6, including Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) and JSR-299.
- Support for CSS code completion, find usages, and renaming capabilities for HTML and CSS.
- The ability to quickly code, test, and deploy OSGi bundles using Maven and Felix.
- Bundled Felix container with the ability to deploy other containers, such as Equinox.
- Support for the Spring 3.0 framework; PHP Zend framework, as well as better PHP formatting and code completion; Ruby on Rails 3.0 and specification of which gems the IDE should reference.
"NetBeans 6.9 continues the tradition of providing the best open source IDE for Java application developers," said Ted Farrell, chief architect and senior vice president, Tools and Middleware, Oracle. "This is the first NetBeans release under Oracle's stewardship, and we have continued to focus on the visual tooling capabilities within the IDE. We believe that the ease-of-use and developer productivity provided by NetBeans is key in helping developers of any skill level take advantage of all of the great Java technologies."


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I have to interject. Maybe I'm completely ignorant and off base, as I've only watched bits and pieces of the Olympics, but why haven't any of the athletes (I've seen) made mention of the disgusting LGBT policies in Russia? Isn't the whole point of NOT boycotting the Olympics to infuse our progressive, western, tolerant mindsets into the gazillion cameras pointed in every direction? It's not about allowing gay athletes to compete. That is such an obviously fabricated distraction. The point is to impact change for the average person living in Russia through the most powerful tool, culture/media. It's such an easy thing to do (though obviously not without risk on the athletes' behalves. That I understand).
Maybe people aren't seeing this, or just don't care. Putin's politics frighteningly mirror Hitler's. Like the Chancellor, Putin is scapegoating a minority to distract from the complete mismanagement of his country's economy. First come the discriminatory laws. What's next? Confining the Russian LGBT community to ghettos, and then Siberian labor camps, shooting at them until they're all dead?
All of the athletes are saying how beautiful and calm everything seems. Remember the Berlin Olympics in 1936? Remember when Westerners would come visit the Jewish ghettos and concentration camps, at which point, Hitler and his posse would temporarily reconfigure them as luxury communities? Everyone fell for it, and it seems like everyone is falling for it again. Shame.
I'm hypocritical. I feel powerless and apathetic. Whenever horrific news comes out of Uganda and other nations regarding virtual death-sentences for LGBT people, I enter a state of shock, which gradually dissipates as I go on with my relatively cushy life, much like American Jews did during the Holocaust (if they were even aware of what was going on…who knows?). I'm not sure what to say. I just find it so sad that an American who wins a medal can't at least indirectly allude to some sort of necessary justice, when s/he has such a monumental platform WITHIN Russia itself.
Oy oy oy.


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The photograph of the Earth rising over the moon taken by the Apollo 8 astronauts in 1968 is one of the iconic images of the US space program, and in this visualization, NASA recreates the moment the photo was taken, pairing digitally rendered views from inside and outside the spacecraft with the astronauts' audio.
Andrew Chaikin narrates this visualization of Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders' experience in spotting the Earthrise and photographing it. The visualization uses photo mosaics and elevation data from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, cloud pattern data from the ESSA-7 satellite, and, of course, the Apollo 8 astronaut's photographs to determine the position of the Apollo 8 spacecraft as it rolled, allowing the Earthrise to come into view. It gives us a sense of what was going on behind the scenes of that historic photograph.
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Four genes may help decide a person's pain threshold, research has shown.
Scientists studied the genes COMT, DRD2, DRD1, and OPRK1, in 2,721 people diagnosed with chronic pain.
Participants rated their perception of pain as "low", "moderate" or "high" on a scale from one to 10.
One gene, DRD1, was 33% more prevalent in the low pain group than in the high pain group, the researchers found.
DRD2 was 25% more common among those with high pain than those with moderate pain.
People in the "moderate" group were 25% more likely to have COMT and 19% more likely to have OPRK genes than those in the "high" group.
In total, 9% of participants had a low level of pain perception, while 46% had moderate pain and 45% high pain. All were taking opioid drugs for pain relief.
Study leader Dr Tobore Onojjighofia, from the US pain management company Proove Biosciences, said: "Our study is quite significant because it provides an objective way to understand pain and why different individuals have different pain tolerance levels.
"Identifying whether a person has these four genes could help doctors better understand a patient's perception of pain."
He added: "Chronic pain can affect every other part of life. Finding genes that may be play a role in pain perception could provide a target for developing new therapies."
The findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Philadelphia.


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Random Photos Part Five
The world needs more Eddie Izzard so he gets the top spot.
The world needs more Eddie Izzard so he gets the top spot.
Posted by ent lawyer at 12:41 PM
Labels: Ben Affleck, David Beckham, Eddie Izzard, Gisele Bundchen, Gretchen Mol, Heidi Klum, Jason Bateman, Sandra Bernhard
Eddie and Jason forevs. Gretchen MOLE.
And for all the naysayers re Ben as batman, if it's based on Kingdom Come, he's a good fit.
Vestal you are a person after my own heart. I ADORE Eddie and Jason
P: Jizz-L & sis tag team
M: Mol
B: Hicks
Hopefully this Batman does as well as Green Lantern did.
Sandra has had a lot of work done.
OT: first photos of Mockingjay Pt 1!
Great picture of Jason Bateman. If you like dark comedy I recommend his movie Bad Words. It's great.
Ben looks good gotta say. Love Jason Bateman forever.
I am kinda pissed that Jizz-L's sister is blocking the view of Jizz-L's ass in yoga pants.
Kristin : can't contain excitement!
God bless David Beckham.
Ben Affleck looks great here! Salt & pepper fox!
Love Jason Bateman
Erm, are they baguettes, or kindling? Ben can light my fire any day.
+1 Violet. Arrested Development forevs.
Thank you, Wigs!
Holy wow, Eddie Izzard!
Ben looks hot.
I love it when blondes get corn rows.
David Beckham looks like he's been getting fashion tips from Al Pacino.
Oh yeah
It's nice to see Eddie out and about in some lippy. I like him butch, I like him any way at all, but I haven't seen him en femme in ages. He looks good.
Ben is looking good!
Eddie looks like he's dropped some weight. Hope he's healthy and happy.
Affhole is a low grade actor that is going to totally stink in Batman. He's nothing but an affected fuck.
I'm going to ask Heidi to come over to my place and scrub out my tub with her head.
Sandra Bernhard is 58 now. She truly doesn't give a fuck what other people think. Have always loved her.
Always thought Gretchen Mol was super pretty. Really stupid, but pretty.
If Somerhalder is straight then I'm Howard Hughes.
My love for Eddie Izzard knows no bounds. ♥
Affleck is gonna do so well as Batman. That movie will make a shit ton of money too. Suck it haters.
I do worse to my younger sisters still even though we adults.
+1000,000 Ray.
Heidi Klum looks like an extra from the movie 'Stargate'
I think putting her sister in a headlock in front of cameras was a dick move on Gisele's part. "Hey! Let me humiliate you in front of these people that are DEFINITELY selling these picturws that will be published around the world!"
She has to make herself look better than the other person in the picture with her. That's why she always convinces Tom Brady to dress like a douche nozzle.
It must be hard having a supermodel for a sister, who's also married to a hot celebrity. She must have excellent self-esteem.
Sandra Berhard looks fabulous.
I heart Ben. So much.
And not to be gross, but Gretchen Mol's dress looks like her period came a few days early. :p
Eddie & Jason .. I definitely would. However I've seen Eddie in a better shade of lippy
Isn't this Gisele's twin, no less?
I saw a pic of Gisele and her sister both gussied up. Her sister got the better face although Gisele is still beautiful just in a less conventional way.
Executive transvestite!
(if you don't know that reference, youtube it. You will thank me.)
Points off, Eddie, the lipstick doesn't match the manicure and the manicure shade is better. ;)
So looks like the Jay-Bey joint statement came out to late for Enty.
Does the lipstick have to match the manicure? Cause with some of the wild manicures now near impossible. I want to get my nails done in ombre style.
Heidi looks like a hag.
LOVE Jason Bateman!
Oh, and hellooooooo, Ian! Comeonoverhere and let me sniff you! Hubba bubba!
I've had a girl crush on Gretchen Mol for years...and I'm NOT ashamed to admit it.
Having said that, the red splotch on her dress is very unfortunately placed.
Gisele was obvs the succubus twin....
I live for Eddie...saw him once doing stand up in Edinburgh, possibly the funniest shit I have ever seen...shame I was too drunk to remember any of it :(
It's a crying shame The Riches was cancelled, great show...despite Minnie Driver's presence...
Eddie's fab. Altho crazy for running something like 23 marathons in 40 days a couple of years ago. Our bodies aren't meant for that.
Thanks for the Gretchen Mol pic, Harry. I regret to say that I aint clicking a link knowing it is going to take me to a nude pic of Bernhard. She's like the female version of Scottie Pippen, next level fugly.
six comments in one post...........
Guess who's baaack!
Honestly I dont know if lipstick and manicure are supposed to match or coordinate anymore. Maybe that was an 80s thing.
Coordinate yes, matching no
Eddie was getting around in stilettos in that pic, better than I can manage!!
Did anyone notice that Ben's guns are super hot/sexy? LOL.
First time i've been attracted to Ben. At all.
Love Eddie Izzard! The first show of his I saw made me laugh so hard I went into premature labor and was put on bed rest...it was worth it.
Yes! Loved him in The Riches! Though I did NOT go into premature labor...
That rose on Gretchen Mol's dress is in a very awkward position.
I always forget Jonny Lee Miller is married. So he has a type huh?
Izzy found the right shade of red.
Ben? Holy Batman!!!!!!! I have been
Gisele is just given her sis a little elevated treatment.
Heidi Klum is missing THE BOAT.
Ian Smolder looks life a hybrid of Rob Lowe And Channing Tater
Gisele is giving sis ELEVATER treatment. But it is also elevated.
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January 20, 1933 - July 27, 2013
Prince George, VA
Our Lord called His servant, Florence L. Pedersen, to His home in glory on Saturday, July 27, 2013.
Florence was born in New York on January 20, 1933 and moved to Prince George, VA in January 2003.
Preceded in his eternal home, is her beloved husband of 60 years of marriage, John Pedersen. Also, left behind to cherish her memories, are her daughter, Karen Donivan and her husband, Jim; and sons: Charles and his wife, Paula, John and his wife, Laura, and Wayne and his wife, Laura. Preceding her in His eternal home is her 12 year old son, Mark Pedersen; one sister and one brother preceded her in death also. Florence was blessed with twelve grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and one sister, Marilyn Demas.
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Obama's Reshuffled National Security Team Has Familiar, Bush-Era Feel
Something to note about the members of President Obama's reshuffled national security team is that they should all be fairly easily confirmed by the Senate which has confirmed all of them for other key posts.
Something else to note is that at least when it comes to the national security experts who flanked him Thursday, partisanship really does seem to end at the waters' edge, at least with Obama.
Several of those named to new jobs on Monday played prominent roles on President George W. Bush's national-security team.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who made his name in Republican administrations, has wide bipartisan appeal.
The very model of the self-sacrificing public servant Gates, a Bush Administration holdover, has given off the vibe of the reluctant warrior or, more accurately, reluctant leader of warriors, since he returned to Washington in late 2006 to succeed Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon.
The one-time CIA director during the first Bush Administration was enjoying his life as Texas A&M's president when George W. Bush summoned him nearly five years ago to salvage the Iraq War.
After his election, Obama turned to Gates, who seems to exude a rare combination of gravitas and humility from his very pores, for important continuity in difficult wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and as a strong bipartisan signal from the new president.
Like Gates, Leon Panetta, the current CIA director, and a former Democratic congressman, has significant bipartisan appeal in Congress.
A gregarious former Clinton Administration budget director, he knows the complexities of the budgeting process which many think will give him an advantage in finding spending reductions at the Pentagon.
The nomination of Gen. David Petraeus to become CIA director, puts another congressional favorite before the Senate. Petraeus, who Obama named to be the top commander in Afghanistan after Gen. Stanley McChrystal was forced out after a media controversy, was seen as taking a demotion to do the Afghanistan job. Previously, he had been commander of Central Command which overseas the Middle East and South Asia.
The CIA post, then, can be seen perhaps as Obama repaying the general for leaving Centcom and taking charge of Afghanistan at a critical time.
As with Gates, Obama inherited Petraeus from George W. Bush. Petraeus came to be seen as the salvation of Bush's Iraq adventure. Obama came to trust him.
Petraeus is viewed as a key proponent in the military of U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine, having literally helped to write the book.
The Iraq surge, whose success Petraeus is credited with, gave Obama a template for his surge in Afghanistan.
Adding to the theme of continuity in repurposing Bush Administration favorites, Obama named Ryan Crocker, a career foreign service officer, as the new U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan.
Crocker, of course, was George W. Bush's ambassador to Iraq during the surge there, working closely with Petraeus.
Before that he was U.S. interim envoy to Afghanistan and ambassador to Pakistan. So his resume made him an obvious choice for the job of U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan.
Marine Gen. John Allen, who Obama named the U.S.'s top commander in Afghanistan to replace Petreaus finds his career once again affected by a Petraeus move.
After Petreaus left Central Command for Afghanistan, Allen who was Central Command's deputy commander, briefly served as its acting commander. He returned to the deputy's post when Gen. James Mattis became commander last August.


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PW6-Titanium White
PB29-Ultramarine [Blue]
PR101-Red Iron Oxide
Pigment Name
PR48:3-Permanent Red
Pigment Type
organic, monoazo
Chemical Name
beta-oxynaphthoic acid lake, strontium salt
Chemical Formula
Permanent Red is a common name used for the strontium salt of beta-oxynaphthoic acid (BONA) lake pigment PR:48. It is substantially bluer than other shades of PR:48. BONA pigment lakes tend to have high tinting strength, however the tinting strength of PR48:3 is only average.
Beta-oxynaphthoic acid (BONA) lake pigments are more lightfast than their beta-naphthol counterparts. Although their lightfastness makes them the pigment of choice in many applications, they may shift slightly in color or lose intensity under some conditions. Pigment PR48:3 has been reported to be the most lightfast of the BONA lake pigments.
Pigment Red PR48:3 is a lake pigment of beta-oxynaphtholic acid, a dye that resembles the common beta-Naphthol pigments. Beta-oxynaphthoic acid may have been synthesized as early as 1887. Commerical use of BONA lake pigments began in the 20th century. PR48:3 is used in printing, plastics, architectural paints, and industrial finishes.
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PW6-Titanium White
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titanium dioxide
Chemical Formula
Titanium White is the most brilliant of the white pigments. It is considered an all purpose oil color useful in all techniques and the best all around white. Its masstone is neither warm nor cool, placing it somewhere between Lead White and Zinc White. It is less prone to cracking and yellowing than Lead White, but it still yellows easily. Titanium White dries slowly in oil form, more slowly than Lead White but more quickly than Zinc White. It is opaque in oil and acrylic forms and semi-opaque in watercolor form. This pigment has good chemical stability, and its tinting strength is superior to both Lead White and Zinc White.
Titanium White has excellent permanence and lightfastness.
Titanium dioxide is highly stable and is regarded as completely non-toxic. Animal studies give no indiciation that it is absorbed biologically, even after long periods of exposure. The primary safety concern is with inhalation of fine pigment dust particl
Titanium is the ninth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, however mineral deposits that are economical to mine are less common. Titanium dioxide was first discovered in 1821, although it could not be mass produced until 1919. Widespread use of the pigment began in the 1940s. Since that time, it has become the most commonly used white pigment. The name comes from the Latin word Titan, the name for the elder brother of Kronos and ancestor of the Titans, and from the Greek word tito, meaning day or sun.
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PB29-Ultramarine [Blue]
Pigment Type
Chemical Name
complex silicate of sodium and aluminum with sulfur
Chemical Formula
Na8-10Al6Si6O24S2-4 or Na6-8Al6Si6O24S2-4
Ultramarine is the standard warm blue, a brilliant blue pigment that has the most purple and least green in its undertone. It has a moderate to high tinting strength and a beautiful transparency. Synthetic Ultramarine is not as vivid a blue as natural Ultramarine. Ultramarine dries slowly in oil and tends to produce clean, though granular, washes in watercolor. French Ultramarine mixes well with Alizarin colors in oil and watercolor form to create a range of purples and violets. It can dull when mixed with white in acrylic form, but mixes well with other colors. The shade varies based on manufacturer. Considered a great color for glazes, it is not suitable for frescoing.
Ultramarine has excellent permanence, although synthetic Ultramarine is not as permanent as natural Ultramarine. It may discolor if exposed to acid because of its sulfuric content.
Ultramarine has no significant hazards.
The name for this pigment comes from the Middle Latin ultra, meaning beyond, and mare, meaning sea, because it was imported from Asia to Europe by sea. It is a prominent component of lapis lazuli and was used on Asian temples starting in the 6th century. It was one of the most expensive pigments in 16th century Europe, worth twice its weight in gold, and so was used sparingly and when commissions were larger. Ultramarine is currently imitated by a process invented in France in 1826 by Jean Baptiste Guimet, making blue affordable to artists and extending the range of colors on their palettes.
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PR101-Red Iron Oxide
Pigment Type
earth, synthetic
Chemical Name
iron oxides (synthetic), iron oxide, silica, alumina, lime, and magnesia or hydrated iron oxide
Chemical Formula
Fe2O2 or Fe2O3 • H2O
Red iron oxide varies in hue and transparency, depending on hydration and slight impurities. Indian Red is a slightly duller, deep brick hue with a bluish undertone. It is very dense and opaque, with excellent tinting strength and covering power. It is dependable when mixing with all other permanent pigments and yields good flesh tints when mixed with Zinc White. It is the synthetic version of PR102, which is a pigment made from earth reds, or natural red iron oxides, and the names applied to PR101 and PR102 often overlap. The synthetic red iron oxides have mostly replaced natural red iron oxides and are brighter, stronger, finer, and more permanent. Indian Red is the highest grade bluish shade. Light Red, English Red, and Venetian Red are yellowish shades. Mars Violet is a dull and subdued bluish or purplish oxide.
Red iron oxide is very lightfast with excellent permanence.
Red iron oxide has no significant hazards.
Natural red iron oxide comes from the mineral ore hematite, called bloodstone by the ancient Greeks from the word hema, meaning blood. It is one of the oldest pigments, has been used by every major civilization, and was an important mineral for medieval alchemists. It was not widely used in artists' materials until the 17th century and was not produced in large quantities until the 18th century.
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MONDAY, Oct. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Screening for chronic kidney disease is not recommended for adults with no symptoms or risk factors such as diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease, according to new guidelines from the American College of Physicians (ACP).
The group explained there isn't enough evidence to justify screenings for these people because the risks and potential problems of testing would outweigh any benefit.
"There is no evidence that evaluated the benefits of screening for stage 1-3 chronic kidney disease," ACP president Dr. Molly Cooke, said in a news release issued by the group. "The potential harms of all the screening tests -- false positives, disease labeling, and unnecessary treatment and associated adverse effects -- outweigh the benefits."
In its new clinical practice guidelines published in the Oct. 22 Annals of Internal Medicine, the group also advised against testing for high levels of protein in the urine in adults with or without diabetes who are taking certain heart drugs, such as an ACE inhibitor or an ARB.
The ACP also recommended treating patients with high blood pressure and stage 1-3 chronic kidney disease with either an ACE inhibitor or an ARB, and they urged the use of statin therapy to manage high LDL ("bad") cholesterol levels in patients with stage 1-3 chronic kidney disease.
Although studies have shown no difference in outcomes between ACE inhibitor or ARB use, the guidelines cautioned that the risk of adverse effects are much higher with a combination therapy involving an ACE inhibitor and an ARB. Those side effects include cough, unhealthily high potassium levels, low blood pressure, and even acute kidney failure requiring dialysis.
The ACP guidelines also stated there is insufficient evidence to support periodic lab monitoring of patients with stage 1-3 chronic kidney disease. The group advised doctors to avoid unnecessary tests.
"Ordering lab tests is not going to have any impact on clinical outcomes of asymptomatic patients with chronic kidney disease without risk factors, but will add unnecessary costs to the health care system due to increased medical visits and unnecessary tests," Cooke explained.
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Even from the outside, the Cathedral of St. Peter in Schleswig with its west tower, ridge turret and stair towers looks like no other. The first official mention of the brick cathedral dates back to 1134. Its construction was completed only in the 19th century, so it has been gifted with art treasures from various eras.
The citizens of Schleswig didn't beat around the bush: when the Danish king refused to seek refuge at Schleswig Cathedral during a civil war, they killed him on the spot. Bad for the king, good for the history books: the cathedral received its first official mention following the incident in 1134. The locals became militant once again just under 400 years later, when Luther visited Schleswig. And they were successful: the cathedral church's first priest was appointed, and it has been a Lutheran place of worship ever since.
The Cathedral of St. Peter is a much more peaceful place these days, thanks to St. Christopher, the patron saint of travellers, who can be found at the entrance to the southern choir by St. Peter's Door. None other than Hans Brüggemann carved this sculpture, and it is a taste of what visitors can find inside the Gothic hall church: the one-of-a-kind Brüggemann Altar. An impressive 12.60 metres high and carved from oak, it tells the story of the Passion of Jesus from the Bible. The ornate pulpit in the nave is also made of oak. The frescos in the Schwahl – the three-winged cloister – depict scenes from Jesus' life. Renaissance art par excellence can be found in the cenotaph of Frederick I, which stands on only six virtues, instead of the usual seven. The sarcophagus is empty, as Frederick's actual resting place in the cathedral is unknown. So it's true what they say: the Cathedral of St. Peter really is like no other.
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Praised as "a masterpiece" by the Washington Post, A Star Called Henry introduced the unforgettable Henry Smart and left Roddy Doyle's innumerable fans clamoring for more. Now, in his first novel set in America, Doyle delivers. Oh, Play That Thing opens with Henry on the run from his Irish Republican paymasters, arriving in New York City in 1924. But in New York, and later Chicago—where he meets a man playing wild, happy music called Louis Armstrong—Henry finds he cannot escape his past.A highly entertaining cross-country epic and a magnificent follow-up to A Star Called Henry, this prodigious, energetic, sexy novel is another Roddy Doyle triumph.


text: Show Hide image Culture 13 September 2012 To Rome With Love - review Ryan Gilbey dissects the decline and tentative rise of Woody Allen. Sign-up To Rome With Love (12A) dir: Woody Allen To wish for world peace may seem naive but it's an act of the staunchest realism next to the hope that Woody Allen will one day return to making films worthy of his name. The phrase "It were all fields around here when I were a lad" has fallen into disuse now that the same effect can be conveyed by saying: "I recall a time when Woody Allen was a filmmaker of wit and elegance." Looking at the evidence – nothing exemplary since 1999's Sweet and Lowdown, and no actual greatness since Manhattan Murder Mystery in 1993 – you'd have to conclude that the old Allen, or rather the middle-aged one, is gone and he's not coming back. Why this is a cause for consternation is unclear. Is it not better to have laughed and stopped than never to have laughed at all? The problem has been the sheer breadth of the disparity between then and now. Gone is the pioneering use of narrative – the mockumentaries such as Zelig and Husbands and Wives, or the collage techniques of Annie Hall and Radio Days. Gone, too, is the stand-up sensibility of Sleeper or Love and Death, and the arresting roles for women, most of which were so meaty that one could overlook the inbuilt prerequisite that the female characters usually had to find Allen irresistible. Expectations have been adjusted steadily downwards since at least The Curse of the Jade Scorpion in 2001 (a movie that even Allen considers his worst). It was marketing considerations that nudged Allen's name into the small-print on the Match Point poster in 2005 – he was a commercial liability by then and the idea of anyone paying knowingly to watch a Woody Allen thriller was unthinkable in an age when people were reluctant even to see one of his comedies. The concealment worked: the film was a hit. But so debased was the brand that it had to be all but expunged in order to sell the product. Now the plaintive cry goes up each year from Cannes or Venice announcing Allen's return to form – a claim as devalued as the Zimbabwean dollar. The best we can hope for is that each picture will be less bad than the last one. Right now, the last one was Midnight in Paris, which was as feeble as it was popular (it grossed $150m, more than any other Woody Allen film). Perhaps the lowest point among many in the film was the scene in which the time travelling hero (Owen Wilson) gave Luis Buñuel the idea for The Exterminating Angel, only for the surrealist genius to demand to know why the guests in the scenario are unable to leave their dinner party. You heard right: Owen Wilson outfoxed Buñuel. So it's a perfect time to receive with gratitude Allen's comic roundelay To Rome with Love, easily his least-bad movie in a decade or so. (Don't scoff: faint praise is still praise.) Its incurious affection for the tourist spots of Rome places it alongside Midnight in Paris, Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Everyone Says I Love You in the Linguaphone School of Film-making. But while the movie (Allen's 42nd) feels like what it is – a late-period bagatelle from an artist too remote to render human encounters without mannerism – its silliness is rejuvenating. It cuts back and forth between four unconnected stories characterised by fantasy or farce. John (Alec Baldwin), an architect, is wandering through Rome when he happens upon Jack (Jesse Eisenberg), a student who reminds him of his younger self. In fact, he is his younger self: what else for John to do but intervene in the romantic mistakes of his youth? Leopoldo (Roberto Benigni) is an office drone who bemoans the cult of celebrity, only to find it attaching itself to him arbitrarily. Suddenly his choice of breakfast is being debated by the nation, and his morning shave is a TV ratings smash. Should you have wondered what sort of Twilight Zone episode Fellini might have written, here's your answer. Allen himself plays Jerry, a former opera director who arrives in Rome with his wife, Phyllis (Judy Davis), to meet their daughter and her new partner. But Jerry is distracted when he hears a tenor voice emanating from a shower stall, tempting him out of retirement. Meanwhile, Antonio (Alessandro Tiberi), a prim young man from the sticks, is about to introduce his bride to his family. But it is Anna (Penelope Cruz), a prostitute stumbling into the wrong hotel room, who is mistaken for his wife in a development that even Ray Cooney might consider a tad contrived. Not one of the stories adds up to a hill of borlotti beans, but the echoes and resonances between them generate a cumulative spell. Each plot concludes with the renouncing of the superficial, and a return to humility: Americans and Italians alike are disabused of their illusions, and the only enduring magic is shown to be the chance and chaos of love. Although the movie delights in the possibilities thrown up by being lost in a foreign city. Allen himself sticks as closely as ever to his personal map. Wherever he sets his films, the hotels are always luxurious, each shot is fit for a picture postcard, and prostitution is an upbeat career choice for the go-getting young woman about town. Ryan Gilbey is the New Statesman's film critic. He is also the author of It Don't Worry Me (Faber), about 1970s US cinema, and a study of Groundhog Day in the "Modern Classics" series (BFI Publishing). He was named reviewer of the year in the 2007 Press Gazette awards and is Film Critic in Residence at Falmouth University. Subscribe For more great writing from our award-winning journalists subscribe for just £1 per month! 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Like many of you I have a laundry list of things that need some attention on my truck, but can't a guy just catch a break??? When I replaced my front shocks I was pleasantly surprised grrrrrr to find that the previous owner had removed the sleeves from the shock bushings and crushed the shock mounts in... that was a butt load of fun, no room to swing a hammer, ended up modifying a brake caliper spreader to get it opened up enough to put the new ones in. A few months later I decided the rears were well overdue, went and picked some up, but of course when I poked my head up her rear I find more pigeon toe'd shock mounts. Not really wanting to get into it so close to dark I instead decided (shoot I was already greasy, may as well accomplish something!) to tweak the adjusting screw on my steering box to get rid of some of the play, shouldn't be anything major, and I was right! Quick and easy! So I go out for a test drive, steering feels great, then a mile from home my brake pedal hits the floor. Limp it home nice and slow, jump out and find that I have blown a wheel cyl. So a simple shock replacement turns out not so simple and as a trade off for decent steering I have to give up brakes. So I guess saturday went from "quiet and relaxing" to "where's my big f'n hammer?" I don't know the moral of this story.


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A home is usually one of our biggest financial assets. It's also an emotional asset, tied to memories, experiences and relationships.
When it comes to retirement planning, it's often difficult to decide what to do with that asset. Should we tap into it to support the lifestyle we desire? Is it better to have it as a debtfree asset? Should we pass it on through the estate to kids or grandkids? There is no shortage of options to tap into the equity of a home, but they all boil down to two basic options: Sell it or borrow against it. Here are some ways to get equity out of your home for retirement:
One common strategy is downsizing, in which you sell one home and buy another for less money, thereby freeing up some of the equity from your original home. It's not for everyone, though.
For those with tremendous emotional attachment to a home, downsizing can be a difficult choice. Their homes are worth more to them than just dollars and cents. In other cases, downsizing may not net the homeowner any cash, if their original home is older and needs work. Monthly expenses such as condo or maintenance fees can sometimes make downsizing more costly in the end, as well.
Relocation can be another way to tap into the equity of the home, especially if you are moving to a location where houses are less expensive. For example, moving from a desired neighbourhood in Edmonton to a home just outside of Red Deer to be closer to kids and grandkids could financially work in your favour.
You can choose to sell your house, access the full equity and then rent a home. For example, it can be quite useful to have that money on hand when the time comes to move into an assisted-living or care facility. As practical as this may be, many people find it psychologically difficult to rent once they have been owners.
For homeowners who don't want to sell, another way to access equity is to borrow it using financial products. The two most common debt solutions are reverse mortgages and home equity lines of credit (HELOC).
A reverse mortgage is a means for homeowners to access a portion of the stored value of their home to use today, while still retaining ownership. This process effectively converts equity to cash, which can be received as a lump sum, regular payments, or a combination of the two.
The biggest advantage of a reverse mortgage is there is no need to make any payments to the lender. Instead, the interest costs accumulate against the equity and the total debt has to be paid off when you sell your home or when you pass away. Options for reverse mortgages are very limited.
Home equity lines of credit are more common and you can access higher limits, but you must make minimum monthly payments against any outstanding balances.
Going into debt at any age should be done carefully, but when entering retirement it is prudent to be particularly cautious. Most people at this stage of life aim to be debtfree.
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'We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.'
Today I called bio-chemist P. We discussed my condition, which gave me the opportunity to tell him that life is difficult. I can see no doors opening for me. No way of reclaiming my life; giving back some of the quality that has disappeared. I appreciated P's response when he said 'We are not giving up! You have been a thread in the tapestry of my life for too many years. I do not want a hole.'
It seems I am overcome by the frustrations of ongoing health problems. I am looking for release from the pain. There has to be a solution!
At a time that I so desperately need the benefits of your response dear friends, I find myself struggling to do my own posts, or even to read and comment on yours which is heartbreaking for me.